"The Wagga Story"
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
This film was produced for the NSW Dept. of Education to demonstrate student life at a co-educational teacher training college.<br /> It includes footage of: <br />- the college buildings and grounds <br />- students studying in the college library <br />- an intercollegiate rugby game (WWTC vs. Balmain Teachers' College) <br />- the intercollegiate ball <br />- "Betty" getting ready for a day of lessons <br />- students at lectures <br />- a student-teacher in front of a primary school class. <br /><br /><em><strong>NB. If you have trouble viewing the film, try downloading the file or use a different browser, ie. Microsoft Edge.</strong></em>
The NSW Department of Education
1951
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"Teacher Training at Wagga College"
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
This film depicts students and staff at the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College during 1964. <br />It includes footage of: <br />- aerial views of Wagga Wagga and the College campus <br />- the campus gardens and buildings (including the buildings later used as the College Pre-School under construction) <br />- students in the residential areas <br />- students studying in the Blakemore Memorial Library<br /> - students in a geography lesson <br />- the Principal, Maurice Hale, at a student assembly in the auditorium <br />- students rehearsing "Everything in the Garden" <br />- a soccer game <br />- students in the dining room (inc. kitchen staff) <br />- students on a bushwalk <br />- students at Lake Albert <br />- Turvey Park Demonstration School (aerial view, primary department students)<br /> - unidentified country public school <br />- graduation ball <br />- students packing up to go home via car or train.<br /><br /><em><strong>NB. If you have trouble viewing the film, try downloading the file or use a different browser, ie. Microsoft Edge.</strong></em>
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1964
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The Dame Mary Gilmore Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Staff, students and visitors gathered at the entrance to the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College (at the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates in College Avenue) on the occasion of the opening of the E.H. Graham Memorial Gates in Urana Street.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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Opening of the E.H. Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Mrs. Phyllis White, daughter of Eddie Graham, cuts the ribbon at the opening of the EH Graham Memorial Gates, with the Premier of NSW, Mr JJ Cahill, looking on.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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The E.H. Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Vice-Principal George Muir spoke at the opening of the EHG Memorial Gates, in the absence of George Blakemore, who was seriously ill at the time.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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The E.H. Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The E.H.G. Memorial Gates were a gift to the College from the students of the 1958-1959 Session and memorialised the State Member for Wagga Wagga, Mr. Edgar H. Graham, who had died in office the previous year. The gates were installed at the entrance to the playing fields on the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College Campus.
The gates can still be seen on the Wagga Wagga Campus of Charles Sturt University at the entrance to Pugsley Place, close by the Graham Building, which was also officially opened on 19 September 1958.
The original gate posts are still in situ in Urana Street.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
19 September 1958
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Open Day, 1967
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College students at the College on Open Day.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1967
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Student Life
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
A group of Wagga Wagga Teachers' College students are gathered around a recently built plinth. What could the occasion be?
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Unknown
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Intercollegiate: Newcastle Teachers' College
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Newcastle Teachers' College students and a teacher arriving at the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College campus (corner of College Ave and Charleville Rd) for Intercollegiate week, 1956.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1956
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Basketball
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College students play basketball on one of the college's courts.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Unknown
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Intercollegiate: Basketball
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College students play basketball against Newcastle Teachers' College during Intercollegiate week in 1964.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1964
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Opening of the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Mrs Dorothy Catts officially opening the Dame Mary Gilmore Gates on Tuesday, 30 October 1956.
The gates were designed for the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College by Lionel Gaylor and were donated to the College by the students of the 1956-1957 Session.
Mrs Catts was a vice-president of the Society of Women Writers and an Austrailian writer. She had been chosen by Dame Mary to represent her at the opening.
Mrs Catts unveiled the plaque at the gates, which had been draped with an Australian flag. She then cut the ribbon stretched across the gates, keeping pieces of the ribbon and cutting a rose from a bush next to the gates for Dame Mary.
The Inscription on the plaque read: "These gates are a memorial to Mary Gilmore, D.B.E., Pupil (1875) - pupil-teacher, and then assistant in the old Gurwood Street School of Wagga Wagga. Session 1956/57 gift".
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
30 October 1956
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The EH Graham Memorial Gates
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The EH Graham Memorial Gates at the Urana Street entrance to the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College ovals.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1960s
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Visit of the NSW Governor
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Lt-Gen Sir John Northcott visited the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College some time during his term as Governor of NSW (1946-1957).
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
Circa 1955
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College Grounds
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The photographer is standing on the roof of the Administration Block, looking south-east towards a classroom block and what later became the laundry.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1969
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Campus Construction
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The GL Blakemore Memorial Library, on the left, was under construction in the centre of the College campus during 1969. It was named in honour of the College's first Principal, who died in office in September 1958. The Blakemore Building now houses the CSU Regional Archives.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
1969
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College Grounds
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
An avenue of Pencil Pines led from the College gates down to the Auditorium, interspersed with tall lamps. A couple of these lamps can still be seen on South Campus.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
circa. 1953
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Sport Fields
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
WWTC provided itself with ovals and courts for a wide variety of sport.
The netball court, seen here, was situated behind the Auditorium. There is an oval on the other side of it and preparations appear to be in progress for another in the foreground of the photograph. The Wagga Showground buildings are visible in the background.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
circa. 1953
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College Grounds
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
The photographer has captured three students relaxing under a solitary tree within the Wagga Wagga Teachers' College grounds sometime in 1953.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
circa. 1953
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The Pleasance
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
This pleasance was situated in a small open area created between lecture classrooms. A small figure, named "Naied", was placed in a small pool of water at one end. "Naied", by K Murray-Jardine, was given to the College by an anonymous donor.
Wagga Wagga Teachers' College
circa. 1953
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